Emily India Evans is a British soprano and organist based in Basel (CH) and London. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Renaissance- Romantic Vocal Performance under Rosa Domínguez at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 2023, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

Equally at home on the concert stage and in opera, Emily's repertoire spans from the renaissance to newly commissioned works. Recent highlights include Bach’s solo cantata Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (performed at West Road Concert Hall and Trinity College, Cambridge), Couperin’s Leçons des Ténèbres (Trinity College Chapel), and Copland’s Poems of Emily Dickinson (Sidney Sussex College Chapel).

Her operatic roles include Venus (Venus and Adonis, Blow), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte, Mozart), Maddalena (La Resurrezione, Handel), and Alcina (La Liberazione di Ruggiero, Caccini). She is currently a member of the SCB Opernfabrik Studio under the direction of Deda Cristina Colonna, where she has performed the roles of Ilia (Idomeneo) and Ginevra (Ariodante).

An experienced ensemble singer, Emily has collaborated with leading groups such as Fretwork, Tenebrae, and Ex Cathedra. She is an alumna of Genesis Sixteen, The Sixteen’s prestigious young artist programme led by Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan. As a soprano at Sidney Sussex College, she appears as a soloist on the choir’s 2023 recording of music by Jheronimus Vinders, named Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Since moving to Switzerland, she has sung in Bach’s Mass in B Minor under Masaaki Suzuki and in Orlando di Lasso’s Magnum opus musicum at Basel’s Martinskirche with Basel ReRenaissance.

Emily has worked in masterclasses and coachings with renowned artists including Janice Chapman, Sophie Bevan, Mary Bevan, Dame Emma Kirkby, James Gilchrist, Nicholas Mulroy, and Mark Padmore. She is also an alumna of the Dartington International Summer School and the St Endellion Festival.

As an accomplished organist, Emily has held posts at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle; St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire; and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She currently studies with Tobias Lindner at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Her recital work has taken her to cathedrals and chapels across the UK, USA, Spain, Switzerland, and beyond. Forthcoming performances in 2025 include solo recitals at Leonhardskirche, Basel and Exeter College, Oxford.

Emily is generously supported by the Musik-Akademie Basel, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and the LYRA Stiftung.